Mr. Santa and Rudolph
December 4, 2007
Once upon a time, there was a deputy director of an educational service center in
Yes, we have done it again. Beginning with another phone call and ending with many, many connections serving thousands of students. Yup…we will have over 3,000 students participating in this year’s Holiday Extravaganza.
Mr. Santa is doing a GREAT job for his very first day as a popular vc character! You know how busy he is this time of year. Mrs. Claus had sent his famous red suit to the cleaners, so he had to read to our students in his “work” clothes.
Day 1 Stats: 866 students!
Mr. Santa read to 19 classes in 12 sessions to 387 students.
Rudolph ran the bridge for his connections and sang to 26 classes in 16 sessions to 564 students.
Santa’s Able Elf Assistant ran the bridge, emailed, blogged, photographed, and Skyped the day away!
Today was not without challenges. First, we run 15 minute sessions with 5 minutes between. That is just not enough time between. There was so much demand that we figured we could serve so many more students by doing 3 sessions per hour instead of 2. Have you ever planned something and when you were planning it, the plan seemed just perfect and then when you implemented it….you started to get that feeling of “What WAS I thinking?”
We did have two sites with issues. Come to find out…one had the unit plugged into a dead drop and the other site is in their first year and we are still working on getting all the natting and network stuff configured. Oh, yes, and we figured out today that there are two different elementary buildings in that district! Seriously, how did we not figure that out in the past year of working with them?
Tomorrow and Thursday, the reading and singing will continue at a marathon pace. Next week, we will shift gears from our primary classes singing and reading to our 2nd-6th graders participating in the first annual Holiday Challenge.
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Teague ISD’s kindergarten students enjoyed their first connection to the outside world. Both Rudolph and Santa’s story were very age appropriate and all of the students enjoyed the program. Thank you Roxanne and Shane for the effort.
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Jerry, thank you for the kind words. We enjoy our student connections far and above any of our other job duties!
Looking forward to what the 5th graders have planned for next week’s challenge!